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THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM THREE
Niẓāmī Ganjavī. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Part 2022-5. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2022, 2022
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Elias Muhanna. The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. 232 pages. ISBN: 9781400887859. In the age of Wikipedia, encyclopedias seem to offer an openly editable content. Yet there was a time when ambitious individuals sought to write compendiums of universal knowledge on their own. Some of them failed because they did not live long enough to complete such enormous projects; however, one of those who succeeded was the late medieval scholar al-Nuwayrī (d. 733/1333). Elias Muhanna's book recounts how this scholar managed to create such an enormous compendium.
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Iyāḍ b. ʿAwāna: THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM THREE
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What Wasn't an Encyclopaedia in the Fourth Islamic Century?
Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques 71:3, 2017
The usefulness of the term " encyclopaedia " in the study of pre-modern Arabic and Islamic literature has been the subject of some discussion over the last decade. The main concern has been that it is applied to a wide range of texts and text-types in a vague and inflationary manner, leaving the intended meaning unclear in any given case. Although there is much merit to this criticism, the discipline also knows of more systematic usages. This paper surveys some of these, arguing that although the label " encyclopaedia " indeed has its disadvantages , the analytical concepts and categories lying behind a usage are of greater importance than the choice of term itself. In light of these arguments, some of the most prominent scholarly usages of encyclopaedia and encyclopaedism in regard to the fourth Islamic century/tenth century CE are assessed.